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Slideshows about web browsers

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  Internet Explorer 9: A visual tour

  IE 9's main browser window takes minimalism to a new level.

  Internet Explorer 9: A visual tour
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  The Web browser turns 15: A look back

  The Web browser turns 15 on Oct. 13, 2009 - a key milestone in the history of the Internet. That’s when the first commercial Web browser - eventually called Netscape Navigator - was released as beta code. While researchers including World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications created Unix browsers between 1991 and 1994, Netscape Navigator made this small piece of desktop software a household name.

  The Web browser turns 15: A look back

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News about web browsers

• Mozilla fights to keep users with new Firefox for Windows 10

  Mozilla has released a Windows 10 version of Firefox, making good on a pledge last month to get something in users' hands quickly.

• Opera browser maker up for sale

  Directors of Norwegian browser maker Opera Software said that they were considering selling the company

• Mozilla issues quick fix for Firefox zero-day bug

  Mozilla has updated its Firefox browser to patch a zero-day vulnerability being used to harvest passwords on Windows and Linux machines.

• Google puts the screws to sneaky Chrome add-on installs

  Google plans to squash Chrome add-ons installed from websites if the extensions deploy what it called "deceptive tactics" to dupe its users.

• Patch halt looms for half of all IE users

• Mozilla slams Microsoft over Windows 10's default browser switcheroo

  In a letter to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard criticized the way Windows 10 changed the default browser.

Features about web browsers

• Microsoft's 13 worst missteps of all time

  DOS 4.0, Zune, and Windows 8 are but a few of the landmarks among 25 years of failures Redmond-style

• Internet Explorer 9: A visual tour

  The public beta of Internet Explorer 9 is here. Have a look at some of the changes and new features it introduces.

• Which Web browser is best?

  IE vs. Firefox vs. Chrome vs. Safari vs. Opera: Our lab tests reveal which browser is the fastest, the safest, and the most powerful tool ...

• First look: Firefox 4 Beta 1 shines on HTML5

  Sure, Firefox 4's new Chrome-like UI is nice, but the real story is under the hood

• Your Browser in Five Years

  The next big computing platform won't be a Mac OS, Android or Windows. It's already here--and it's the Web.

• 5 reasons to upgrade to Apple's Safari 5

  The biggest change is bringing extensions to the browser